Sustainability and Optimization: From Conceptual Fundamentals to Applications

Ali Sadollah, Mohammad Nasir and Zong Woo Geem
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Ali Sadollah: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Science and Culture, Tehran, Iran
Mohammad Nasir: Research Department of Energy, Materials and Energy Research Center, Karaj, Iran
Zong Woo Geem: Department of Energy IT, Gachon University, Seongnam 13120, Korea

Sustainability, 2020, vol. 12, issue 5, 1-34

Abstract: In recent years, both sustainability and optimization concepts have become inseparable developing topics with diverse concepts, elements, and aspects. The principal goal of optimization is to improve the overall sustainability including the environmental sustainability, social sustainability, economic sustainability, and energy resources sustainability through satisfying the objective functions. Therefore, applying optimization algorithms and methods to achieve the sustainable development have significant importance. This paper represents a considerable review on the employed optimization methodologies to sustainability and the sustainable development including sustainable energy, sustainable buildings, and sustainable environment. Since energy optimization is one of the major necessities of sustainability, sustainable development is investigated from the energy perspective. In addition, the concept, definitions, and elements of the sustainability and optimization have been presented, and the review of the optimization metaheuristic algorithms used in recent published articles related to sustainability and sustainable development was carried out. Thus, it is believed that this paper can be appropriate, beneficial, and practical for students, academic researchers, engineers, and other professionals.

Keywords: metaheuristics; optimization algorithms; sustainable development; sustainable energy resources; sustainable buildings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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